Emerging Settings in Athletic Training: Entrepreneurship

Celebrating National Athletic Training Month 2022 — Providing Health Care Everywhere

Name: Allison Strickland, MEd, LAT, ATC

Organization: ATStudy Buddy | Shea Hawk Solutions LLC

L ocation: Iowa City, Iowa area

Education: Current PhD Student in Communications at Liberty University, MEd in Health and Kinesiology from UT-Tyler (2012), BA in Athletic Training (2010)

Certified since: 2010

Additional Certifications: Functional Movement Screening

As we kick-off the first in our National Athletic Training Month 2022 blog series on emerging settings in athletic training, I wanted to start off by highlighting myself — Allison, the owner of ATStudy Buddy. Even before starting my own business, I found myself on the emerging settings career path. Now, as an entrepreneur, I believe it’s important to educate others on what it really takes to start and grow your own business — even coming from a profession that doesn’t commonly enter the entrepreneurship world.

After working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer and the head athletic trainer at a large high school in the Chicago suburbs, I found myself without a job when my husband — who is also an athletic trainer — took a job as an…